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Topic: Snow tubing with 5D III + 24-70 II (Read 13497 times)

I doubt you need it but those handwarmers put by extra batteries helps out a lot. Depending where you go sledding what out for tubers. Getting hit by one of those isnt good without a camera, other people will go faster and farther than you daughter.

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Just spent a good portion of the day in Tahoe with my 5dIII and 24-70 MKI and no issues. The advice given about keeping the camera cold is spot on. Wish I had more edit time before I saw this! Took a few panno's of fog (I think what they call pogonip) hovering over the mountains. I even had this little snow monster with me all day:

While I don't have the 24-70 MkII, my 7D survived without problems while lying in the snow when attached to my 300 f/2.8. Ole Liodden also did an article testing out a 7D getting splashed with snow. The 5D MkIII has the same level of weatherproofing as the 7D, so I wouldn't expect any problems, but I haven't been in that situation with mine as we don't tend to get a lot of snow here.

I saw a youtube video a while back where they put the 7D through a durability test. All i remember is that they froze it in a solid block of ice and then lit it on fire and IT STILL TURNED ON. Those things hold up pretty well I'd say.

With shutter speed 1/800 to 1/1000, I don't think "IS" going to help with photograph.

... not to prevent camera shake, but IS also produces a steady viewfinder and this is also nice for picture composition and setting the af point exactly where it should be - probably won't matter much in the "standard" zoom range, but starting @~160mm+ it's nice to have.